Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1887-08-04

village on Fnday IaSt.
The hum OF the thresher follows close
on that OF the harvester.
c. III. Niggeman was OH the sick list
; the past week but is now around again.
The slate for the roof of the school
house has arrived and is nearly all laid
We return thanks TO ID. c. Smith and
Ed Hopkins for some fine harvest ap-
pies.
JAS. Cooper visited his parents and
friends in this place the first of the
week.
David f.. Macarthur has the founda-
tion laid for his new house to be erect
ed soon.
Mrs. Snider. of Bay City, visited
among her many friends and relatives
the past week.
The farmers are beginning to haul
their flax to the mill in town. Nearly
all report paying crop.
O. p. Chamberlain is now putting up
a kiln of 100000 brick He has three
men engaged in the work.
Don Macarthur is home for a few
DAYS. having completed his work on
the telephone line to Bad Axe.
1t is an assured fact that Richmond
will bore for gas Why cannot a test
well be put down in this places.
]. c. Holden and p. :. McGregory
left Saturday for Sault Ste Marie where
they will sojourn for a short time.
| \ good deal of sickness in town and
surrounding country the past two
weeks on account of the extreme warm
weather.
Considerable threshing has already
been DONE and new wheat will soon be-
gin to make its appearance in the
markets.
Z. +. Law has been engaged the past
week mallinga plat of Jonas Oswarths
property and the lots will be placed on
sale soon.
We made n mistake in the the pur-
chase price OF the land bought by ID. &.
Williams. 1t should have been 2l9 i'll
stead Of $500.
Oscar Boice has severed his connec-
ton as clerk il \. II. Braidwood's
store, and is now engaged for short
time in Holden Bros. store.
Workmen are busily engaged putting
up the furnace room in rear of the bank |
building. The bank will be warmed
next winter by hot water.
Geo. Etherington will give dance
at his hall in Valley Centre. on Friday
evening. Aug. >. to which he invites all.
n good time Is anticipated.
s,;J,,,,, II,lo,p,l, on1
Deckerville. made a short visit with
their parents and many friends in this
place Saturday and Sunday.
An excursion train passed through
here on Sunday, composed of seven
coaches. bound for East Saginaw
Quite number from here took i'll the
cheap ride.
Lapeer county contains one Of the
LATEST young men in the world. His |
name is Brown and he has shot him. |
self Though the hand i'll order to avoid
work. Last year he did the same trick |
sending a bullet through his other
hand.
c. III. Snider has givenup his position
as station agent at Clifford and was in |
town calling OH his old friends last |
week. He is now at Sault Ste Marie |
where he expects to locate in the future |
May peace, prosperity and happiness
attend him and family.
II is but reasonable TO admit the |
evidence OF our senses when we hear
of the extraordinary cures affected by !
.Iohnston's preparation of Sarsaparilla. |
The mass of testimonials daily recei- |
ed proves conclusively that for diseases |
nf hn cta lie o,,oi, 20
any preparation known.
The Brockway Centre Agricultural |!
Society intend making many improve
ments to their grounds by building |
new stalls, pens. &c. and will put forth |
every effort to make the fair this fall a
success. The people should heartily |
second these efforts with influence,
words, and last, but most, important |
patronage.
In the society column of an Arizona |
paper it istold how the brother of
fair bride threw an old shoe at the |
groom on the conclusion of the cere-
mony. 1t says that the groom yigor-
ously objected to this time-hOnored |
custom, not SO much because it hit him |
on the back as because the brothers |
foot was in it.
Subscribers in arrears to this paper
are requested to ply up at once. We
hope that those in the different parts |
of the United States and across the line
who have been trusted during the past |
year or two will give this matter inn |
mediate attention. Distance should !
not effect honest dealing All in ar
rears outside of the county who pay up
before October 1st will be charged the |
regular rate ~ 90 or 81 .25 if not paid at |
that time.
a Texas editor announces himself as
follows I'VE were born on the from !
tier, have been reared on the broad
prairie; have plowed, have herded cat
tie, kept store, run mill, practiced
physic, lectured on phrenology, edited
| a newspaper, and run drug store, but
we have never been whipped, and when
any person undertakes ii he will be
pretty certain to regret till he dies.
phase God as the Irishman said, that
he lives that long We can be SANDER
ed. cursed. abused and ridiculed, but
we draw the line at being whipped.
The Detroit Journal has made the
discovery that the much talked of rail-
road from Port Huron to Detroit, by
the way of st. Clair and Marine City,
| is to be built at once. 1t says:-"A line
of railway is to be built as soon as the
right of way can be obtained from De
troit to Port Huron, connecting with
the Northwestern road there. and it is
| nrohahle that the latter will be made a